Improvement in grain-separators



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Grain-Separators. I No. 142,672, Patented September9,1873.

IINITED STATES PATENT OFFIoE.

JACOB W. BREESE, OF OANANDAIGUA, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAlN-SEPARATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,672, datedSeptember 9, 1873; application filed February 18, 1873. 1

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB W. BREESE, of Canandaigua, in the county ofLenawee and State of Michigan, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Grain-Separators and I do declare that the following is atrue and accurate description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon,and being a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a sideelevation with the side frame removed. Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofmy attachment detached.

Like letters refer to like parts in each figurc. I

The nature of this invention relates to the peculiar construction andoperation of the shoe of a grain-separator, and the peculiar motiongiven thereto the more effectually to deliver the grain to the fan, andis more especially designed as an improvement upon the grain-separatordescribed in patent No.

- 126,670, and dated May 14, 1872. The inven tion consists in thepeculiar construction and operation of the shoe, and in the combinationof the same with the other necessary appliances of a grain-separator, asmore fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the shoe, provided with twoshelves, B 0, each inclining to the other, as shown in Fig. 2, and theformer so arranged as to drop the grain falling upon it onto the latter.The shelf B extends forward sufficiently far to catch all the grain fromthe cylinder D which may accidentally not be carried onto the riddle E,while the shelf 0 extends to the opposite end of the machine, or atleast far enough to catch all the grain that may pass through theriddle. This shoe is suspended on two shafts, F, and the ends of theseshafts are secured in the Wheels G, one of which is suitaerally rigidlysecured to the sides of the machine beneath the cylinder D. In thisinvention this concave is merely an attachment to the end of the riddle,and projecting under the cylinder. This riddle is hung and moved asdescribed in said Letters Patent, and, bein g attached to the concave,gives it the same motion, thereby facilitating the passage of the grainonto the shelf B of the shoe, and preventing any clogging of theconcave.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Shoe A, constructed substantially as described, and hung upon shaftsF, to operate as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination of shoe A with the cylinder D and riddle E, asdescribed.

JACOB W. BREESE.

Witnesses:

W. J. GASSELMAN, HARRIS P. GRAHAM.

